June welcomes Barbara Blanks, poet and author.

Since her sun is now heading for the western horizon, Barbara Blanks says she’s blooming as fast as she can.  In less than a year she’s had 2 book signings, and won two first place awards in the Poetry Society of Texas (PST) annual contest, plus she placed in several categories.  As a result of that, she was not only a WGT guest speaker in April, but her winning poems and a book review/article about her were featured in the May/June issue of The Senior Voice. (http://www.theseniorvoice.com/pdffiles/0956SV.pdf) 

As a result of that, she’s been asked to speak (on July 29) at The Point at CC Young in Dallas. 

Some of those events led her to being nominated and elected as a Director on the board of the PST, and--through default, she frankly admits--she is also now Acting Recording Secretary for the local Garland chapter of the PST.

And on the basis of a 500-word humorous filler piece sent to RubberStampMadness, a national stamping magazine she’s been subscribing to for twenty years, Barbara was offered assignment work.  Her first article will be in their Fall 2009 issue, and she’s about to begin work on a second assignment.

Barbara's story, "A Bird Too Bizarre," will appear in the July 2009 issue of  Beyond Centauri, a Sam's Dot publication.  She is also pleased about 35 books sold to the New Jersey Book Agency for re-sale  --and puzzled as to how they learned about her book.  But she says, “When Serendipity slaps you in the face, start chewing!”

Update as of 6-23-09 Barbara has just learned she is a 3rd place winner in one category of the NFSPS annual contest, in addition to claiming three Honorable Mentions.  And she has just been asked to accept the recently vacated Librarian postion in the PST.

OUT OF THE WRECKAGE: The Pop Stories may be ordered from www.lulu.com/content/3677822, or from Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/nb48dp or on Kindle.  It may also be ordered (using Paypal) directly from Barbara through her website www.BarbaraBlanks.books.officelive.com